Administrator Profiles

Add this code to your sweetdate-child theme functions.php

// Remove admin from the member directory
function bpdev_exclude_users($qs=false,$object=false){
    
    $excluded_user='1'; // Id's to remove, separated by comma
	
    if($object != 'members' && $object != 'friends')// hide admin to members & friends 
    return $qs;
	
    $args=wp_parse_args($qs);

    if(!empty($args['user_id']))
    return $qs;	
	
    if(!empty($args['exclude']))
		$args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'].','.$excluded_user;
    else
		$args['exclude'] = $excluded_user;
	
    $qs = build_query($args);

    return $qs;
	
}
add_action('bp_ajax_querystring','bpdev_exclude_users',20,2);

// once admin is removed, we must recount the members !
function bpfr_hide_get_total_filter($count){
    return $count-1;
}
add_filter('bp_get_total_member_count','bpfr_hide_get_total_filter');

Hello Radu,
I used your code to hide the admin, and it works only intermittently. Regardless of clearing browser history or not.

I’m very disappointed with BuddyPress not offering this in their core to hide the admin. Why should the site admin be forced to have a profile?

After all, we all go through a lot of trouble not using the WP “admin” for the back end, and change DB prefixes for security reasons to mention a few, yet BuddyPress forces one to reveal the admin username liberally. I tried turning Activity Streams off, but it makes no difference.

Hence, this is not just an inconvenience, but a major security risk! If I can’t find a solution for this I’ll have to disable the BuddyPress plugin, and purchase a script catering specifically to online dating.

As much as I like the WP based idea and the looks of SweetDate, but for tight membership control there are yet major obstacles to overcome, and the SweetDate theme not being compatible with the DS Plugin, does not help either.

Thanks Radu… much appreciated!

I hope the second code keeps the admin hidden in all cases.

In the meantime I figured out what caused the admin to show at certain times. I’m using the “BP Registration Options” plugin, and any time someone registered, and the “All Members” count increased by 1, that’s when the admin became visible, but the plugin correctly prevented the new user from showing, until approved.

Disabling the plugin made no difference, only approval or deletion of the new member made the admin invisible again.

Very strange, and never a dull moment, as certainly all images an any test profile no longer enlarge and return the “The content could not be loaded” error. Something to do with the resent RT update perhaps, because everything worked before.